Baptism

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Excerpt from Baptism: Its Nature, Obligation, Mode, Subjects, and Benefits How much of uncharitableness might be prevented, and how extensively the spirit of Christian fellowship might be promoted, in the various branches of orthodox Christianity, by practically observing the invariable truth, that the unity of the church, in all ages, de pends upon the identity of the doctrines and conditions of salvation, and unity of love, and not upon a mere uniformity in ceremony, practice, and opinion, which, from time to time, may be adopted, and which are as mutable as the manners and customs of men! The Act of Uniformity, passed in England, in 1661 - 2, obliging all the clergy to subscribe the Thirty-nine Arti cles, and use the same forms of worship, caused upward of two thousand ministers to quit the Church of Eng land - which was indeed a usurpation of power over man's religious nature, and a violation of the Spirit of the gospel, and yet these very ministers regarded their own regulations, and differences of Opinion in religious matters, as just causes of divisions among themselves, and exclusiveness toward each other - an example, alas, lamentable in its in¿uence in our own country! If our Christian principles and experience are founded on the sweet, simple, and gentle laws of the gospel, framed as they are by infinite wisdom, universal in their sanction, boundless in the range of their blessings, written in the blood of their meek and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.